Shoe-nail



(Modem E. OASWELL. Shoe Nail.

No. 22936. v Patented June 29,1880.

N, PETERS, PH TDJJTHDGR PMER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIJAH S. GASWELL, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,376, dated June 29, 1880.

Application filed March 5, 1880. (Model) specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a nail especially designed for the manufacture of shoes and boots. I

The figure of the drawing is an enlarged perspective view of a nail having a beveled head and point and projecting shoulders.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes whose soles are fixed to the uppers by nails a channel is formed around the sole a short distance from its edge, and Within this channel the nails are driven, the boot or shoe being placed on an iron last; hence the nails used for this purpose are called channeLnails.

In the drawing, A represents the nail, having a beveled head, a, a central beveled point, b, and shoulders 62 d, projecting from its opposite sides. The shoulders d d are formed on its opposite sides as it is griped by the heading mechanism of the header.

When used as channel-nails for boots and shoes the beveled points of these nails, coming in contact with the iron last, rarely or never fail to turn upward in the direction desired, and clinch in the sole of the boot or shoe without any distortion of the shank of the nail, and the points of the nails can be so entered into the channel through the sole that theywill clinch to either side, as desired. With sharp tackpointed channelnails, on the other hand, or square-pointed nails, it is never certain in what direction the point may turn.

The beveled heads of these nails, being so narrow, are easily covered by the flap made in forming the channel in the sole of the boot or shoe, so that the said sole shall present a neat 

